Legal Opinion
In Re Kimball Hill Homes Texas, Inc.
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided June 4, 1998No. 14-98-00043-CVPublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
YATES, Justice.
This mandamus proceeding involves a suit for damages brought by several hundred homeowners in the Houston area against Kimball Hill Homes Texas, Inc. and Kimball Hill, Inc., (“Kimball Hill”) and Houston Lighting and Power (“HL & P”). Kimball Hill is the relator. It claims the trial court abused its discretion by not abating the case under the Residential Construction Liability Act (“the RCLA”).1 See Tex. PROP.Code Ann. § 27.004 (Vernon Supp.1998). We conditionally grant the writ.
On October 29, 1997, the homeowners, the real parties in interest, filed their first amended…
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